History of the region based on the materials of archeological excavations” is being opened on the lowest floor of the Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple with the refectory. It is the first full exhibition representing archaeology of the Belozersk district in the Vologda Region. Materials of the monastery archeology are displayed for the first time in our region. More than 4000 archeological objects dating back to different chronological periods are represented there: from the Mesolithic period (9000 B.C.) till the late Middle Ages.
At the end of the 20th – early 21st century considerable restoration work has been carried out in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve. Museumfication of the monuments is being realized at the same time. One of the most interesting architectural buildings of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery is the Monks’ cells. In the process of its restoration architects and restorers managed to discover complicated structure of this dwelling house of the 17th-19th centuries.
Exhibitions dedicated to the folk applied art and handicrafts of the Belozersk district are placed in the spacious vaulted chambers of the monastery cook-house of the 16th century. An important place is occupied by wood-carving, ceramics, peasant embroidery, weaving, lace-making and a folk female costume of the 19th-early 20th centuries.
12.09.2012
The shooting team of television company “Millennium Media” worked in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve on September 11
To the order of TV-channel “Russia” the television company “Millennium Media” is preparing the cyclus of historical documental film about outstanding statesmen of the past centuries. One episode will be dedicated to tsar Ivan the Terrible and his reign. The main body of the film is shooting in Vologda and the Vologda region because the life of Ivan the Terrible was associated with this land. The legendary tsar’s library was looking for in the Vologda region.
The shooting team: author Nina Milovidova and camera man Andrey Kuznetsov were interested in places and architectural monuments related to the visits of Ivan the Terrible, his parents, princes and boyars exiled by tsar. The movie will be shown on channel “Russia” in October 2012.
